National Institute of Food and Agriculture · Federal agency

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – Foundational Program

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Award $0–$750k Deadline 5839 days ago Location Alabama Type grant Level Federal Closed posted Mar 22, 2010

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✦ AI Summary

Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
Funding amount: up to $750,000 (total pool ~$64,000,000).
Next deadline: August 23, 2010.
Issued by: National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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Who can apply — at a glance

Eligible applicants: see the Eligibility tab for the criteria from the official announcement.
Where: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, District of Columbia.
Award: $0–$750k. Total program pool: $64,000,000.
Matching funds: not required.
Deadline type: Fixed.

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About the funder

National Institute of Food and Agriculture is a federal-level funder.

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Award amount

$0–$750k

Deadline

5839 days ago

Aug 23, 2010

Total pool

$64M

About this opportunity

The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) flagship competitive grant program and was established under section 7406 of the Energy Act of 2008 (the 2008 Farm Bill). AFRI supports work in six priority areas: plant health and production and plant products; animal health and production and animal products; food health; renewable energy, natural resources, and environment; agriculture systems and technology; and agriculture economics and rural communities. In FY 2010, AFRI is soliciting applications through seven Requests for Applications (RFA). One RFA calls for research projects addressing the above six priority areas. Additional RFAs further address AFRI priority areas in five societal challenge areas. The five challenge area RFAs are: Childhood Obesity Prevention; Climate Change; Food Safety; Global Food Security; and Sustainable Bioenergy. These RFAs will support extension to achieve significant, measurable outcomes. NIFA will also release a single, separate NIFA Fellowships Grant Program RFA to fund pre- and postdoctoral fellowship grants in April 2010. This RFA addresses the Foundational Program.

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture

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Source ID53022

PostedMar 22, 2010

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Award size $0–$750k

Deadline 5839 days ago

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